Hugo Bernatzik lived with his family in Heiligenstadt, Vienna in a villa commissioned by his father in 1911, built by the architect Josef Hoffmann and furnished by artists from the Wiener Werkstätte.
He founded, in 1857, at Heiligenstadt a second seminary for boys and introduced the general examination for priests.
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He studied at first under an elder brother who was a priest, and later at the Gymnasium at Heiligenstadt.
Out of these private courses for the training of elementary school-teachers developed a seminary for teachers at Heiligenstadt.
Heiligenstadt | Heiligenstadt, Vienna | Heilbad Heiligenstadt | Heiligenstadt (Upper Franconia) |
The nearest large city is Göttingen, the Landkreis capital, about 25 km to the north-west by road, with Duderstadt just 12 km to the north-east and Heiligenstadt the same distance south.
The Hohe Warte is a hill in the 19th district of the city of Vienna, Döbling between Heiligenstadt and Unterdöbling.
Over the course of the years further estates were added to the family’s possessions, such as Schloss Greifenstein and Schloss Burggrub in Heiligenstadt near Bamberg, the Lautlingen castle near Ebingen on the southern slopes of the Schwäbische Alb, Ristissen some twenty kilometers south of Ulm and the Straßberg and Wildentierberg estates in Lautlingen near Albstadt.